Queens’s Day Incident
Queens’s day incident in Apeldoorn in the year of 2009
Queen’s day also known as Koninginnedag is a national holiday in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. This holiday is reserved to celebrate the birthday of the Queen. Though Queen Beatrix was born on 31 January, the holiday is observed on 30 April as it was the birthday of her mother and predecessor, Juliana. Many of the traditional activities are held outside, and observing the holiday in April makes suitable weather more likely.
On this national holiday in the year of 2009 at the location of Apeldoorn, something unpredictable happened which shocked the whole population in the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
A man drove his car at high speed into a parade which included Queen Beatrix, Prince Willem-Alexander and other members of the Dutch royal family. The man drove his vehicle through people lining the street watching the parade, leaving eight dead for dead and ten injured. It missed the royal family and crashed into a monument at the side of the road. No members of the royal family were harmed. This incident was seen as a terrorist attack on the royal family. This attack was also the first attack on the Dutch royal family in modern times.
The driver, identified as 38-year-old Dutch national Karst Roeland Tates, was looked after by emergency service workers of the fire brigade and police. The police and the emergency service took him into custody and transported him to the hospital for treatment. He died the day after the incident.
What this incident made known to all who have to deal with law was the fact that people claimed damages on the bases of tort. For some, it’s a common sense to get compensations for this incident, but for the people sitting at home watching the whole event on television??!
It never occurred in the history of law that people who watched an incident on television got compensated due to psychological damage. It is interesting to find out how the system of law dealt with this
Queen’s day also known as Koninginnedag is a national holiday in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. This holiday is reserved to celebrate the birthday of the Queen. Though Queen Beatrix was born on 31 January, the holiday is observed on 30 April as it was the birthday of her mother and predecessor, Juliana. Many of the traditional activities are held outside, and observing the holiday in April makes suitable weather more likely.
On this national holiday in the year of 2009 at the location of Apeldoorn, something unpredictable happened which shocked the whole population in the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
A man drove his car at high speed into a parade which included Queen Beatrix, Prince Willem-Alexander and other members of the Dutch royal family. The man drove his vehicle through people lining the street watching the parade, leaving eight dead for dead and ten injured. It missed the royal family and crashed into a monument at the side of the road. No members of the royal family were harmed. This incident was seen as a terrorist attack on the royal family. This attack was also the first attack on the Dutch royal family in modern times.
The driver, identified as 38-year-old Dutch national Karst Roeland Tates, was looked after by emergency service workers of the fire brigade and police. The police and the emergency service took him into custody and transported him to the hospital for treatment. He died the day after the incident.
What this incident made known to all who have to deal with law was the fact that people claimed damages on the bases of tort. For some, it’s a common sense to get compensations for this incident, but for the people sitting at home watching the whole event on television??!
It never occurred in the history of law that people who watched an incident on television got compensated due to psychological damage. It is interesting to find out how the system of law dealt with this